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Poster for The Herstory of the Female Filmmaker

2010 · ★ 0.0 (0)

An eccentric, animated documentary on the 'herstory' of some of motion picture's greatest (and often overlooked) contributors.

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1932 · ★ 0.0 (0)

It depicts the establishment of kolkhoz (collective farming) in Bukhara. Poor dehkans are oppressed by bays and emir. One of them, unable to bear the slave labor, flees from his native land. A few years later, the fugitive returns and becomes an activist of the collective farm movement. Kulaks kill him and try to flood the collective farm fields with water. However, collective farmers stop the sabotage and reveal the secret of the murdered activist. The perpetrators are justifiably punished.

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Poster for Butterfly

1975 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A 1975 work, Butterfly makes use of polarized graphic effects as Ana Mendieta's spectral body sprouts iridescent wings.

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Poster for Salt Crystals Spiral Jetty Dead Sea Five Year Film

2013 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Geological elements and erosion leave marks on a strip of 70mm film that floated in the Dead Sea and soaked in clay before getting stuffed in a suitcase to be brought back to Los Angeles, where it was submerged and sat in buckets filled with mud and salt for years in the artist’s studio. After five years, Jennifer West dragged the film along the mud and salt crystal encrusted spiral of Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty before throwing it in the icy pink waters of Utah’s Great Salt Lake—the film’s frames were then digitally photographed and re-stitched together. Through material traces of mud, salt crystals and sand, distant places and layered temporalities flicker across a film that lasts less than one minute.

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Poster for Color

1955 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Perhaps the first experimental color film made in Uruguay, Color was the work of a pioneering woman filmmaker, still a teenager at the time of the film's completion. Millán had a number of vérité shorts under her belt by this point, but none in such gorgeous color.

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Poster for Zaineb Hates the Snow

2016 · ★ 7.8 (2)

When her mother remarries and her newly blended family moves to Canada, a 9-year-old Tunisia girl's life takes a profound turn as she struggles to find her place and maintain her Muslim identity in a new land.

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Poster for Devotion

2003 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A sparing and minimal travelogue of Istanbul. A foreigner meditates on the unraveling of a relationship while moving from hotel room to hotel room. In a city simultaneously devoted to Islam and secular nationalism, she finds refuge in the frailty and severity of the rituals of devotion.

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Poster for Tomorrow and Again Tomorrow, Journal 1995

1998 · ★ 5.8 (2)

French filmmaker Dominique Cabrera made this documentary diary by videotaping for nine months during 1995, probing her own life as a single mother in a Paris suburb and capturing her depression, therapist, lover, and intake of food and Prozac

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Poster for Bad weather

1980 · ★ 7.0 (1)

On a rainy and windy day, characters try to lead normal lives despite the inclement weather. Every everyday task becomes an ordeal, leading to clumsiness, falls, and a series of absurd situations. Through these successive incidents, the film ironically observes how humanity struggles against a world that is slipping away from it.

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Poster for The Adventures of Giraffe

1973 · ★ 0.0 (0)

In an ordinary city apartment there lived a stocking. One day she was sitting at home while fluffy white snow was falling outside the window. Suddenly, she felt very bored and sad because of the routine she felt she was stuck in.

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Poster for Marusia Bohuslavka

1966 · ★ 8.0 (1)

In the 16th century, Ukraine suffered from the attacks of Tatars who destroyed the lands, burning houses and taking Ukrainian young people with them as prisoners. It happened with Marusia, who became one of the Khan's concubines. She managed not only to conquer the outlandish ruler, but release of hostages and her compatriots.

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2012 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Sera, a Spiritual Energy Balancer, meets an Elitist Life Force Sucking Vampire over some wine.

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Poster for First Steps in a Terra Incognita

2002 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A young American woman travels to Bosnia to contemplate life there after a period of war. The camera is her being, moving quietly in and out of apartments and mosques in Sarajevo, across cultures, between the real and the imaginary.

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1997 · ★ 6.0 (1)

A film by A K Dolven

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2015 · ★ 0.0 (0)

When the system goes down at a government agency for name changes, the clerk will only take one more person before leaving at 5. The group of desperate people with ugly names must try to convince each other to leave the office.

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Poster for Wenn es Liebe ist

2016 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for When the Oak Leaves Fall

1991 · ★ 8.3 (3)

The story is a celebration of the cleverness and wit of the simple peasant Čupera, who triumphs not only over the demon of alcohol, but also over the bureaucratically persistent and thorough devil. The hell that the farmer goes through during the withdrawal process is stylized as a shantytown, a galley with a prison and a dehumanized night club.

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1964 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A palindrome created on film. Features interaction between a couple with the recurring line 'Madam I'm Adam'.

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Poster for Falling Lessons

1992 · ★ 7.0 (1)

A rhythmic montage of almost 200 faces, human and animals, that Halpern pans vertically, creating a cascade of visages suggesting that while individuals express a range of emotions they remain ultimately enigmas.

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Poster for Malerei heute

2006 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The documentary film by and with Stefan Hayn describes how election posters, cigarette, detergent and cinema advertisements refer more or less clearly to topics such as tax legislation, security in old age, increasing fears about losing one's job, and domestic and foreign policy crises. In order to develop this impression, in 1998 Hayn began painting watercolors of billboards that had been put up in Berlin. From the outset, each sheet was intended as a "setting" of a documentary film that would document the economic, political and interpersonal changes that would become visible in "public" images up until 2005.

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